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New organ donation rules make the most of human laziness, so let’s use that to target the fat, the mean and the wasteful

I’m wondering if the principle of opt-out that has this week been applied to organ donation (yes, you’re an organ donor now, you absolute hero, you) could be applied to all sorts of other areas of daily life — charitable giving, environmental responsibility, gender equality, general niceness — in which a lot of us often do the wrong thing, simply because we can’t be bothered to do the right thing.

Because that was the story with organ donation, wasn’t it? For all the years that it was an opt-in thing, most people never bothered, even though they knew they should. Possibly they even wanted to be donors but didn’t know how to go about it, couldn’t be fagged to find out and just thought, “Meh,